Internalization, After Loewald: A Powerful and Clinically Useful Concept for Psychodynamics

Rosemary H. Balsam, F.R.C. Psych (London), M.R.C.P. (Edinburgh) is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale Medical School; a Staff Psychiatrist in the Yale Department of Student Mental Health and Counseling; and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, New Haven, Connecticut. Her special interests are female gender developments, young adulthoods, the body in psychic life, and the work of Hans Loewald. She is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Imago, and is coeditor of the Book Review Section of JAPA. Her most recent book is Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis (2012).
CONTACT Rosemary H. Balsam, F.R.C. Psych (London), M.R.C.P. (Edinburgh) 64 Trumbull St., New Haven, CT 06510, USA.